Intelligence community officials expressed doubt regarding the infamous Trump/Russia Dossier and doubted the integrity of its author Christopher Steele during email conversations, according to a bombshell new report.

The dossier was written by former British MI6 agent Steele and was used as a crux to obtain FISA warrants to spy on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

Republicans have since questioned the whether the FBI knowingly relied on inaccurate or unverified intelligence to obtain the warrants.

During a lengthy email thread in October 2016, Justice Department and FBI officials discussed concerns from the intelligence community regarding the validity of the Steele Dossier.

The Steele Dossier was used to obtain spy warrants against former Trump advisor Carter Page

According to the Daily Caller, the emails also reveal that top government officials were aware that Christopher Steele, the author of the dossier, was in contact with reporters regarding his investigation into President Donald Trump and his possible links to Russia.

The emails, first reported by The Hill, were exchanged in October 2016, before the FBI submitted its first of four applications for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants to spy on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

The emails could lend further evidence to Republicans’ allegations that the FBI used information that it knew to be uncorroborated to obtain FISA warrants against Page.

The documents could also raise the possibility that the FBI used circular reporting in the FISA applications.

That’s because the bureau relied on a news article published by Yahoo on Sept. 23, 2016, in its FISA applications.

The application presents the news article as separate from the dossier, even though Steele provided information to the author of the piece, Michael Isikoff.

Then-FBI Director James Comey was on the email chain with FBI investigators and officials in the Justice Department’s national security division, according to The Hill.

The emails were only recently added to a list of documents that congressional Republicans hope Trump will declassify.

“For months, we have been reviewing emails between FBI and DOJ and others that clearly show that they knew of information that should have been presented to the [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance] Court,” Nunes said.

"It is real evidence that people within the FBI withheld evidence from the FISA court.

“Even though we know what’s in those emails, a lot of them are still redacted. So they’re still refusing to give Congress even in a classified setting this information.”

A congressional source with knowledge of the documents has told The Daily Caller News Foundation that they contain “significant” insight into the FBI’s thinking in the early days of the Russia probe.

Nunes and other Republicans previously pressed Trump to declassify and release 21 pages of a June 2017 FISA application taken out against Page.

Republicans have also sought the release of FBI notes taken in interviews used for the FISA applications, as well as notes that were taken during interviews with Bruce Ohr, a Justice Department official who served as a back channel to Steele.

The FISA applications also cite Isikoff’s report, though the FBI inaccurately asserted that investigators did not believe that Steele had provided information to Isikoff.

Soon after obtaining the first FISA, the FBI cut ties with Steele over his contacts with David Corn, a reporter at Mother Jones who published an article anonymously quoting Steele on Oct. 31, 2016.

It is also not clear whether Steele told the FBI about all of his media contacts.

In a footnote to its June 2017 FISA application, the FBI notes that Steele told the FBI that he only provided information from his research to the bureau and his business associate, presumably Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson.

Much of the rest of the footnote is redacted, making it impossible to know what else the FBI wrote about Steele’s interactions with reporters.

But the FBI did state in the application that the bureau “does not believe that [Steele] directly provided this information to the identified news organization that published the September 23rd News Article.”

There is already ample evidence that the FBI, and even Steele and Fusion GPS, had not verified much of the information in the dossier.

Steele himself has reportedly told associates that he was only “fifty-fifty” certain that the dossier’s most explosive claim — that a video exists of Donald Trump using prostitutes in a Moscow hotel room — actually exists.

And Glenn Simpson, the founder of Fusion GPS, had doubts about Sergei Millian, a Belarus-born businessman who is believed to be a major source for the dossier.